Did You Know?

Golisano College is recognized as a National Center for Academic Excellence in Cyber Defense Research and Education by the Dept. of Homeland Security and National Security Agency.

Our Ph.D. researchers are some of the leading minds in cardiac research and are developing novel methods for treatment and analysis.

Our game design and development program was recently ranked #2 in North America by Princeton Review.

Distinguished professor Vicki Hanson is President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society.

RIT’s MAGIC Spell Studio, a 43,000 square foot, state-of-the-art production studio for gaming, digital media, film and animation production will open in 2018.

Golisano College alum Alex Kipman ’01 (software engineering) is the inventor and visionary behind Kinect for Xbox and the Microsoft HoloLens.

Golisano College is home to some of the world’s leading researchers in the fields of accessibility, cybersecurity, health informatics, pervasive computing, and geographic information systems for disaster response.

RIT was home to the United States’ first information technology and software engineering BS programs.

RIT won the 2013 Collegiate Cyber Defense National Championship and has won the Northeast Regional Championship in 2008, 2011-2015, and 2017.